On the occasion of EXMARaLDA's 10th anniversary, we are pleased to announce new versions of the EXMARaLDA tools, downloadable from www.exmaralda.org.

EXMARaLDA is a system for constructing, managing and exploiting spoken language corpora. It is used, among others, by linguists studying spoken discourse, language acquisition, dialectal variation and phonology.

EXMARaLDA consists of three software tools: the Partitur-Editor, a tool for transcribing and annotating digital audio or video recordings; the Corpus manager, a tool for bundling recordings and transcriptions into a corpus and managing their metadata; and EXAKT, a query and analysis tool for EXMARaLDA corpora.

The new versions of the tools have new and improved interoperability features for importing or exporting data from (among others) CHAT/CLAN, ELAN and Transcriber - users of these tools may be interested in trying out the import wizards of the EXAKT query tool.

EXMARaLDA is free and open source software. Its development is ongoing. We appreciate your feedback and suggestions for improvement.